There are a number of blatant contradictions, outright lies and misinformation, and sudden changes in direction that have occurred, or are occurring, almost simultaneously in recent days. And I’d like to take a moment to line them up and point them out to my progressive/left-leaning readers who may still be clinging to the traditional news outlets as their source of information regarding the political goings-on in these here United States of America.
So first of all – let’s look at the firebombings of Tesla dealerships (no, it’s not fake news, or overly panicked news. Just do a search for Tesla dealership firebombing). Employing the favorite tactic of the left, the concerned head tilt, I have to ask – do you condone or support these violent actions? Are you in favor of destroying businesses as a political statement? Do you enjoy threatening people who hold differing political views from you? Do you support vandalism of other people’s property? If so, why? If not, why are you remaining silent? Why are you not speaking out against such violent actions? As a follow up – if you own a Tesla, why did you buy it in the first place? Has that reasoning changed for you? Did you buy the Tesla because you wanted to be cool, wanted to own an electric car, or just wanted to demonstrate your commitment to the environment? FYI, you do realize that Volkswagen was started by actual Nazis, right? And, if you’re worried about past or present political views, Henry Ford was an anti-Semite of the highest order. If you get rid of your Tesla and don’t buy another electric car, are you still as committed to the environment?
Next up – Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security. None of the legitimate payments are stopping. DOGE wasn’t having you on when they discovered that Social Security payments are being made to people over 120 years old. Why do you object to stopping those payments? I’ve had a few people claim that I’m supporting cutting off much-needed assistance from Medicaid when I support auditing those agencies. Again, payments are not stopping. But the question remains, why do you object to audits? Audits are done to make sure processes and rules are being followed and that there is nothing hinky going on with money spent. Again, you can go to the White House website and the DOGE website to see what they’re doing for yourself. If you don’t believe them (why don’t you?), you can then go elsewhere to verify. I will warn you though, you will need to pay close attention to how things are worded on the legacy media sites and other left-leaning sites like Axios.
On that note, do you still listen to NPR and find that they are so wonderfully informative? Why? The current CEO of NPR, Katherine Maher, was caught lying about what she said in past X posts/tweets, said she’d never read some books but in tweets claimed she had, and generally couldn’t come up with any good answers to questions in a Congressional hearing. You can watch videos at the link here. I know many of you will sneer at the link to Redstate and I’ll ask why? Are you afraid of reading something that contradicts what you “know” to be “true?” Why are you so afraid of debate?
On a slightly funnier note, I see a number of people posting favorable, even sycophantic, comments about Cory Booker’s marathon speech in the well of the Senate. He was filibustering NOTHING. There was nothing going on. He just decided to talk for over 24 hours. Oh, and the record for filibuster that he supposedly broke with his non-filibuster? The DEMOCRATS filibuster of the 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. That’s right. Yes, Booker is a member of the party that tried to stop passage of the landmark civil rights act and founded the KKK.
Yes, a large of the anti-Semitic sentiment in this country originates with the Democratic Party. They are the party of resistance to Reconstruction after the Civil War. They hated the Republicans for freeing the slaves. They founded the KKK to keep freed slaves “in line” and began the first gun-control movements in order to prevent blacks from owning guns. All of the party planks you support were all conceived in the name of white, anti-semitic supremacy by the Democratic party. Think about that for a moment.
In “why are you upset about that?” category of things: Here’s some more detailed info for you:
- That “innocent” immigrant who was sent to El Salvador with all the Tren de Aragua members? He is a member of MS-13 – not exactly an innocent bystander.
- Being anti-COVID vax is not the same as the general anti-vax sentiment. The media is conflating those two positions in order to distract you from the very real problems surrounding the real side-effects of the COVID vaccines and the collusion between Fauci, Brix, the medical community, and the pharmaceutical companies in rolling those out without any testing, up to and including the CDC changing the definition of “vaccine” in 2022.
- “Defunding” Planned Parenthood – that organization has a little over $2 BILLION in income for 2024, with more than that in assets. TWO BILLION DOLLARS in income. Yeah, they’re struggling. And FYI, that Dobbs decision you’re freaking out about? That not only returned abortion policy to the states, but on the flip side, it simultaneously prevents the federal government from imposing a federal ban. And, as I’ve said before – if you’re so worried about women in states where abortion has been made illegal, start your own 501(c)3 to provide free or very low cost transport to states where abortion is legal. Or don’t you want to help those women?
- Oh, let’s look at the whole chat on Signal thingy where Jeffrey Goldberg was accidentally added to the chat group. Was that a total fuck up on Mike Waltz’s part? Yes. Was national security compromised and lives put a risk? No. Does the White House need to pay attention to things like that? Of course. Next, ask yourself why Goldberg didn’t reveal anything? And then ask, if he’s so concerned about national security, why would he publicly announce he was privy to such “war plans?” Were you worried when it was discovered that Hillary Clinton was storing classified docs on an unsecure server that was housed in some dude’s bathroom? Were you worried when it was discovered that Joe Biden had classified docs in boxes in his garage? But you were worried when you found out that Trump had unclassified docs in a secure location at Mar-a-Lago. Why? How was that worse?
There are a number of books that have been released recently regarding the cover up of Biden’s ongoing and rapid slide into dementia which, they all now admit, began before the 2020 presidential election. There are a couple of things you need to pay attention to in that debacle. First off, those books got released in the last couple weeks. The authors did not start writing them in the last couple weeks – they released them. This means they’ve been writing those books for at least a couple of years. What does that tell you about their role in covering up the fact that the man you voted for was not the man making decisions affecting this nation? That in fact there were a whole lot of unelected individuals signing EOs and making decisions regarding national security all based on their own preferences. Finally, given the loud mea culpas in these books, ask yourself why didn’t any of these “journalists” report on Biden’s health while he was president? Why did they loudly and vociferously go along with the cover up? You complain that Elon Musk is unelected, but he was appointed by a competent President to carry out that President’s action plan. Do you see the difference?
I will conclude this rant by noting once again, it is your responsibility to broaden your information gathering horizons. It is on you to pay attention to what politicians, news media, and federal officials are saying and how they are saying it. You are expecting these people to do a job, you need to keep them on their toes, and you need to ask the hard questions. YOU and nobody else.
You call yourself informed and intelligent. Well, act like it.
That goes for conservatives who are refusing to critique anything or listen to other points of view as well.
We are all responsible for how this country is run. It is not above our paygrade or our outside our purview. Our livelihoods and lives are at stake.
Quit following the crowd, quit denigrating those whose opinions differ from yours, and start thinking for yourself.
You owe it to yourself.
